I wouldn’t be smiling! Even a cow up close can be very scary. My mother mooed at some cows in a petting zoo once and they didn’t like her tone–they all ran over to her aggressively. Luckily there was a strong fence.

I too had a very unpleasant eye to eye experience with a chief cow once. To say I was scared sh..less when she with her entire herd behind her charged towards me at full throttle would be an understatement. And there was no fence!